0:06 greetings
0:10 teen zone fans and graphic novel enthusiasts
0:12 enthusiasts
0:15 it's mr tone
0:19 also known as chap in the cap
0:23 good to see you continuing on with
0:26 our reading of
0:29 the classic and
0:34 there i say historic uh
0:36 graphic novel by the title of mouse
0:37 written by
0:42 we're getting pretty close to the end
0:46 now two chapters left
0:50 and today's offering will be chapter
0:53 chapter 4 of
0:58 mouse volume 2.
1:02 and let's go ahead and get us to the
1:06 screen share now again uh
1:10 keep in mind that the story
1:14 is essentially two stories it's
1:17 a story being told within a story okay
1:18 and they're
1:21 both true so they're not it's not like
1:22 we're making up stories here
1:27 we're talking about uh a father and son
1:31 the son being a graphic
1:35 novel writer and illustrator
1:38 and getting the story from his father about
1:39 about
1:43 his surviving the second world war
1:47 in various prison camps
1:50 uh so anyway let's go ahead and get back
1:52 to the slides let's see
1:55 let's and yes there we are
1:57 but all right i'll share that i'm going
2:00 to shrink up enough
2:04 there i am and put this out of the way
2:08 full screen and
2:36 back in rego park late autumn
2:39 always i saved
2:43 i saved only so i can have a little
2:47 something from my old age so now i have
2:49 my old age and look
2:52 what i have i have a tank with oxygen
2:55 and i'm so weak with my heart and my diabetes
2:56 diabetes
2:59 i can't live anymore alone
3:03 i have so much room you and francois can come
3:04 come
3:08 and for no rent live here by me
3:13 no that's totally up out of the question
3:18 so how have i to live artie tell me
3:22 to go to a retiring home it's not for me
3:26 well why not get a live-in nurse
3:29 you can afford it and what will my
3:31 neighbor say to it if they see a woman
3:34 is living by me
3:37 so hire a male nurse yeah
3:40 you and mala you don't know
3:45 to make money only to make it disappear
3:49 if i give on mala a hundred thousand dollars
3:49 dollars
3:54 over to her name then she'll live again
3:59 here this you advise me
4:40 myself maybe to your room i can find a tenant
4:41 tenant
4:44 to take care of me uh
4:48 huh maybe well come
4:52 we have now to carry up my storm windows
4:53 to put in
4:57 shy i was hoping you'd tell me more on
5:01 of your story this we can talk maybe after
5:02 after
5:05 but already i'm cold i lose money to heat
5:06 heat
5:10 with no storm windows
5:13 in other years i put my i put by now
5:16 the windows that i didn't need help
5:20 look i'll do it but first
5:24 just tell me more about anya anya
5:27 what is the towel everywhere i look i
5:28 see anya
5:32 from my good eye from my glass eye
5:34 if they're open and they're or they're closed
5:35 closed
5:39 always i'm thinking of anya
5:42 uh i meant when you were in dachau where
5:44 was anya
5:47 i don't know the different camps she
5:48 marched from i'll switch
5:52 earlier as me and came also through
6:02 but how did anya survive
6:05 nancy the hungarian girl what i knew
6:06 there in auschwitz
6:21 after the war
6:24 after the war always for mancy to give a nice
6:24 nice
6:27 reward but i didn't know even her full name
6:28 name
6:36 mom used to mention ravens
6:40 ravensbruck was nancy with her there
6:43 yeah maybe it was there i only know that
6:44 anya came
6:47 out free by the russians inside and she came
6:48 came
6:52 back to salzburg before me my liberation
7:04 it was the last minutes of the war i left.com
7:06 left.com
7:08 i went to be exchanged for german
7:10 prisoners on the swiss border
7:14 but we never came i remember we got each
7:17 a treasure box from the swiss red cross
7:21 sardines biscuits chocolates
7:23 some ate right away everything i kept of
7:25 course to have
7:28 later so at night some tried to steal
7:30 from me
7:32 with my typhus i needed still much to rest
7:33 rest
7:37 but this treasure was more to me
7:48 everybody up line up in fives
8:00 here here
8:09 and i saw not it's not
8:12 everywhere in my hell it's still life
8:16 given life things going on
8:20 we march we stop for hours we stood
8:23 what's going on they're taking us back
8:24 to d.col
8:27 no no the americans are coming it was commotions
8:28 commotions
8:32 and rumors then shouts the war is over
8:36 it was over march back to the tracks
8:39 snell it didn't leave us go
8:42 or put us on a freight train the
8:44 americans will be in the next town
8:48 they can ha they can have you
8:51 on this train no guards came so really
9:07 in half and half hour this train
9:10 hey stopped americans aren't here
9:22 so so went one way some another we didn't
9:22 didn't
9:27 know where we went halt or i'll shoot
9:31 all of a sudden it was vermont patrol
9:34 little by little they got all of us what
9:35 we're going to be
9:38 free maybe 150 or 200 people
9:42 over in the woods by a big lake i didn't
9:44 understand what was going on
9:49 but i was again here in german hands
9:52 they guarded us so we couldn't go away
9:55 there are machine guns set up all around us
9:57 us
9:59 we overheard they intend to murder every
10:00 one of us tonight
10:17 later in the afternoon i went over
10:19 close to the edge of the water lotic spiegel
10:21 spiegel
10:25 marek spiegelman is that you
10:28 shivik you're alive civic was from
10:30 before the war
10:34 a friend from that zone near souls
10:37 we survived everything just to just to get
10:37 get
10:41 shot while the war ends
10:44 i still have a little coffee i organized
10:56 look get him one older guy
10:59 he was maybe so he was maybe 50.
11:03 jumped into the lake it was a far swim
11:07 bang he made it do you have the strength
11:12 to try just stay near the water
11:16 we can always try try it when it's
11:19 when the real shooting starts so it came night
11:20 night
11:22 we were terrible we were terrible frightened
11:23 frightened
11:26 we sat and waited it was crying and praying
11:27 praying
11:30 so long we survived and now we want it only
11:31 only
11:35 that they shoot because we had
11:46 in the early morning we were still all
11:47 we were still all
11:54 alive they're gone it's a miracle
11:57 there's not one german left just their guns
11:58 guns
12:00 what happened i was lying near the head
12:02 officer's tent
12:04 his girlfriend was arguing with him she
12:06 begged him to let us go
12:11 she warned him he'd be punished
12:14 the war is over she cried let's run away
12:17 she saved us so we went
12:24 maybe we can get food at one of these farms
12:25 farms
12:28 halt on the road was another patrol
12:32 also catching jews so
12:35 we had again in the same story they found
12:35 found
12:44 we had we heard all night shooting in
12:45 the mountains
12:50 around our guards they all ran away
12:53 so this next morning we
12:57 still we were still again alive
13:00 calm shivek let's find a bunker let's
13:01 find a bunker until
13:12 we came by a garage so i went over
13:14 please sir we need a place to hide till
13:16 the americans get here
13:20 go away i don't want to get involved
13:23 have pity it's just for a day or two well
13:23 well
13:26 there's a pit in the back it's none of
13:30 my business if you want to lie in it
13:34 over a day we lay there then to vermont
13:38 came hey which way is innsbruck
13:42 that way officer but wait two jews are
13:45 back there hiding in a pit
13:48 they were in so big a hurry to run it
13:52 didn't look to us it didn't even look to us
14:04 we'll find a safer spot we passed a few horses
14:05 horses
14:09 and peeped inside
14:14 well look nobody seems to be home here
14:18 a part of this house it was a barn
14:21 we can hide up here under the head from
14:22 the walls we heard shooting
14:26 schnell elsa back what you can
14:30 hurry this may become a battlefield any minute
14:31 minute
14:34 the villagers are running away fine the
14:35 farther the better
14:40 kaboom the far side from our barn fell
14:44 down a little my god what happened
14:46 the vermont is retreating and blew up
14:48 the bridge to seal their trail
14:51 it means we're free
14:55 let's look around it's safe now uh-huh
14:59 i'm not going anywhere uh-uh uh-uh
15:13 slurp slurp i drank so long
15:16 i didn't know when i stopped i told you
15:17 it's safe now
15:21 i got you some milk look so we both
15:23 drank too much milk and looked around
15:27 ah chickens
15:34 civic he killed each day a chicken
15:38 and milked us a cow i used to dream
15:40 about chickens
15:43 look i found clothes upstairs we can
15:45 throw away our stripes
15:49 there i'm starting to feel human again
15:52 me too except uh get
15:55 getting nauseous our stomachs got a shock
15:56 shock
15:59 to eat milk and chickens we got very
16:02 sick of diarrhea
16:05 we lay a few days in bad shape until the
16:07 americans came
16:21 i told how we survived to hear
16:24 and from daca we came over by train
16:28 to all that's just my men
16:31 signaling that they found a cache of
16:38 those crowds can't hurt you anymore the
16:39 only ones left
16:40 are dead or dying [Music]
16:43 [Music]
16:46 this house will be part of our base camp
16:48 but i guess you boys can stay if you
16:50 keep the joint clean
16:54 and make our beds want some chocolate
16:57 maybe for later thank you
16:59 so we worked for the americans and
17:01 they'd like me that i can speak
17:06 english thanks for the shine willie
17:10 it's okay sergeant don't even mention
17:13 they gave us they gave to us food cans
17:27 one time it came a woman with officials
17:28 in the house
17:31 arrest those two jewish thieves
17:34 they stole my husband's clothes
17:37 we never looked on what clothes we we
17:40 never looked on what clothes we took
17:43 robbers you'll have to give them
17:45 back you'll have to give them back willie
17:47 willie
17:50 so let her take i i told
17:54 we have still three full vis releases
17:58 ah look at the time we have to hurry
18:01 now with my windows
18:05 but before i forget i put here a box
18:08 what you'll be happy to see i thought i
18:09 lost it
18:12 but you see how i saved
18:16 mom's diaries no no
18:19 on those it's no more to speak those
18:22 it's gone finished but
18:26 below my closet i find these snapshots
18:29 some still from poland thanks
18:32 come you'll look after the windows
18:36 you'll look after the windows this is
18:43 uncle herman
18:47 yeah he was anya's oldest brother
18:50 he ran and logged the family hosiery factory
18:51 factory
18:54 in 1939 him and hella came to see the
18:56 world's fair
19:01 and they stayed here the war in 1950
19:04 you were a baby we came also here from stockholm
19:04 stockholm
19:08 to this house i'd like better to stay in sweden
19:09 sweden
19:12 i had again a good business but anya
19:14 insisted to be with the only surviving
19:15 one of her
19:19 of all her family and oy when herman died
19:19 died
19:22 from hit run driver in 1964
19:25 our anya started then also to die a little
19:26 little
19:30 so here it's their two kids lolik and lania
19:31 lania
19:36 which stayed by us in sausage in the war
19:39 molech you know he then came out alive
19:42 from auschwitz so now he's an engineer
19:45 a big shot college professor and the big
19:54 the little girl she finished with rishu
19:58 in the ghetto this brother ivanya joseph
20:00 he was a saint sign painter commercial artist
20:01 artist
20:11 and had in loads a girlfriend a beauty
20:15 but she liked money and nightclubs
20:17 then the germans took away the factory
20:19 from anya's family
20:22 so he had less money and he left him
20:26 and she left him and he killed himself
20:30 the middle brother levick he ran with
20:31 his wife to russia
20:34 when the war came but when he saw how it
20:36 was there
20:38 he wanted to run back those who ran to russia
20:39 russia
20:42 they put to siberia as traders
20:45 but to smuggle back over the borders
20:46 cost a fortune
20:50 i sent some money in 1938
20:54 i needed cash to my factory he gave
20:56 so now i helped him come back to his wife
20:57 wife
21:00 to his wife's family in warsaw
21:04 in warsaw you know how it was
21:07 if they stayed only in russia
21:10 they still now maybe they'd
21:16 anya's parents and grandparents her big sister
21:17 sister
21:20 tosha little bibi and
21:23 our reishi all that is left
21:30 what about your side of the family my side
21:31 side
21:35 my father and fella and her four kids
21:49 my younger sister had only one kid each
21:52 and came with me to the ghetto before
21:53 they all
21:56 died later to auschwitz
21:59 marcus my closest brother and moses went
22:01 to a camp
22:04 to black amber soon after i came
22:08 out from the army i sent them money
22:12 by the red cross i hid it into bread
22:16 i wrote them this bread it's expensive
22:19 eat it very slow and careful i met after
22:20 the war
22:23 a guy he saw them die but wouldn't tell
22:26 me how
22:29 my other brothers leon and binnick they deserted
22:30 deserted
22:33 out from the polish army to lemberg in russia
22:34 russia
22:38 a family of peasant jews kept them safe
22:41 pinic he married one of them but leon
22:44 got sick doctors said it's typhus and he died
22:46 died
22:50 of a bad appendix so only my little brother
22:50 brother
22:53 pinnock came out from the war alive from
22:54 the rest
22:57 of my family it's nothing left
23:06 these photos we got from rishu's polish governess
23:08 governess
23:11 we gave her our valuable things to hold
23:13 until the war is over
23:16 but afterwards she said all these valuables
23:17 valuables
23:21 the nazis grabbed away we didn't believe
23:25 but the pictures at least she gave back
23:28 can i take these home yeah
23:32 it's for you but wait i'll put them in them
23:32 them
23:36 to an envelope
23:39 the cigar box i could need for ah
23:43 whoa you see
23:47 my nitro stat helps me right away
23:51 but i talk too much i'll lie
23:54 a little down um
23:57 what about the storm windows alone you
23:58 can't now
24:02 how to do and i'm now too tired for this
24:05 maybe tomorrow will do impossible
24:08 i'm too busy i'll come out next i'll
24:09 come out
24:13 again next week ah then now
24:17 we must do it i'll
24:20 great have another heart attack look
24:23 you'll just have to pay a bit more
24:26 for a heart for heart a few days for heat
24:27 heat
24:28 for a few days longer [Music]
24:31 [Music]
24:40 so never mind darling always a pleasure
25:01 saved if you recall that was the that
25:02 was the name of the book
25:06 of that particular chapter chapter
25:10 uh chapter four so
25:14 as you can see the story is in fact
25:16 winding down what you see on the screen
25:18 is the final
25:27 volume two of
25:30 our presentation and reading of the classic
25:31 classic
25:42 it's a tale that is troubling
25:46 what needs to be told needs to be heard
25:49 and i hope at the very least
25:52 you can appreciate a personal story like this
25:58 that comes from
26:07 is if it's not heated
26:12 we're doomed to repeat let's hope that
26:19 inhumanity to our fellow humans
26:22 is something that we can leave in the
26:24 history books
26:27 well thank you for joining me
26:31 mr tony aka
26:35 the chap in the camp running out of hats
26:37 so i guess we're going to have to be
26:41 wrapping up the series anyway
26:43 thank you for joining me join me next
26:46 time two weeks from now
26:50 when we complete our final chapter
26:53 of mouse a survival of the survivor's tale
26:54 tale
26:58 volume 2 until then
27:07 see you next time you
